A book apart html5 for web designers pdf writer

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and abandon hundreds of millions of potential users. If you want pixel-perfection, design for iPad only. 'Far from being obsolete, web standards prove their worth the more devices, browsers, and platforms come online.

Worrying about maintaining pixel-perfect look and feel across all these platforms and devices is missing the point designing with ideas like progressive enhancement, adaptive design, and responsive design is what we should be doing, and all these ideas come out of the web standards movement.

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Our sites must perform on great platforms like iPhone, iPad, and Android on half-baked platforms and crummy phones on TVs with good browsers but bad UI in short, everywhere.

'Indeed, there is now no single preeminent context for our work. 'But while modern browsers and web standards give us the tools to ensure consistent experience across desktop browsers, it is important to recognize that desktop browsers are only one context in which our sites and applications must work - and no longer the preeminent context. If you design using progressive enhancement, visual and behavioral differences in older browsers will be consciously designed the user won't know the difference and won't care. 'With CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and web fonts, it is possible to create websites that look and behave virtually identically in modern browsers and operating systems.

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Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report is Zeldman's personal website, which has been running since May 1995 QUESTION: Kevin Rain asked (via Facebook): 'What's the point in having web standards when the same code looks different across different browsers?' I take inspiration from walking and admiring New York City, my adopted home of 20-plus years. 'I take inspiration from the designers and developers around me - from the few who literally share my work space, to the many who share their work and their lives online. The more you do with HTML5, the more your work will help sell it to other developers, clients, and site owners.' QUESTION: Simon Fisher asked (via email): 'Where do you find inspiration?' On the web, the technology that gets used the most is the technology that wins - from HTML and (in the old days) Flash to Typekit and Twitter. It's another thing entirely for him to be held to that promise because designers or developers like you hold him to it by participating in the discussion around HTML and its features. It's one thing for the editor of HTML5 to declare that the spec is designed to be practical and solve real problems. 'You can, however, join the WHAT WG or the W3C to ensure that your voice as a designer/developer is heard as the standard evolves. On that level, then, the answer to your question is, you don't need to do a thing.